Ruben Dario was a nicaraguan poet, journalist and diplomat, he was the maximum representative of the modern literature in spanish language, also called the prince of castillian words. Darío was the firstborn child of Manuel García (known for being excessive with alcohol and women) and Rosa Sarmiento, García’s cousin. Rosa Sarmiento They got married thanks to donations given to the church, because, on those times, marriage between second cousins wasn’t allowed. García’s behaviour made Rosa Sarmiento, already pregnant, choose to leave their home and take shelter in Metapa city, in which she gave birth to her son, Félix Rubén. Then, after a brief reconciliation, she becomes pregnant with a daughter, who died few days after birth. Their relation falls apart again, and Rosa abandoned her husband once again, to go and live with her son at one of her aunt's house, Bernarda Sarmiento, in the same city of Leon. But Rosa Sarmiento wanted to live a new life without her
Nueva York, 1915. The Nicaraguan poet, the most representative figure of Modernism, lived intensely the forty-nine years of his life. He traveled throughout most of Latin America. He connected early with new poetic currents and with French literature. His personality was complex: passionate, errant, bohemian and idealistic, devoted with passion to women and alcohol, both religious and pagan, with outbursts of euphoria and drops into deep depressions. But he was also a good man, generous, close and dear. Dario, a whirlwind of emotions and passion for literature, in his short but intense pilgrimage of life, worked as a librarian. This man, like many other great writers around the world, was one of the great geniuses who took refuge in libraries to let their minds, their creativity, moments of madness and sanity fly in great poems like "Azul", the beginning of his modern style, written in Valparaiso, Chile. As he explained in his work, the title, Azul (blue) was f
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